Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on September 8, 2006
Nucleic Acids Research 2006 34(16):4630-4641; doi:10.1093/nar/gkl535
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2006, Vol. 34, No. 16 4630-4641
© 2006 The Author(s)
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Aberrant 3' splice sites in human disease genes: mutation pattern, nucleotide structure and comparison of computational tools that predict their utilization
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University of Southampton School of Medicine, Division of Human Genetics Mailpoint 808, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK
Tel: +44 2380 796425; Fax +44 2380 794264; Email: i.vorechovsky{at}soton.ac.uk
Received June 1, 2006. Revised July 10, 2006. Accepted July 11, 2006.
The frequency distribution of mutation-induced aberrant 3' splice sites (3'ss) in exons and introns is more complex than for 5' splice sites, largely owing to sequence constraints upstream of intron/exon boundaries. As a result, prediction of their localization remains a challenging task. Here, nucleotide sequences of previously reported 218 aberrant 3'ss activated by disease-causing mutations in 131 human genes were compared with their authentic counterparts using currently available splice site prediction tools. Each tested algorithm distinguished authentic 3'ss from cryptic sites more effectively than from de novo sites. The best discrimination between aberrant and authentic 3'ss was achieved by the maximum entropy model. Almost one half of aberrant 3'ss was activated by AG-creating mutations and 
95% of the newly created AGs were selected in vivo. The overall nucleotide structure upstream of aberrant 3'ss was characterized by higher purine content than for authentic sites, particularly in position –3, that may be compensated by more stringent requirements for positive and negative nucleotide signatures centred around position –11. A newly developed online database of aberrant 3'ss will facilitate identification of splicing mutations in a gene or phenotype of interest and future optimization of splice site prediction tools.
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